78 Dr. Kennepy Batuiz’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
and of which so ample an enumeration has been preserved in the list of the Epony- 
mous Archons, occurring in the titulus found at Sighadjek, and first published 
by Pocock.* Could it be proved that Sivri-hissér occupies a position in the 
ancient district of the Chalcideans, I should feel little hesitation in identifying it 
with the zupyos XaAkidevs of which notices have been preserved, both in that 
titulus and the sepulchral one published by Chandler} and Professor Béckh.t 
Ibid. page 21, line 8. 
Since I wrote this it has been my good fortune to become possessed of ampler 
materials for the restoration of this interesting fragment. I have already men- 
tioned that circumstances over which I could exercise no control, during the pe- 
riod of my visit, prevented my copying the whole of the inscription in the bath- 
room at Sighadjek ; but since I left the country I commissioned one of my cor- 
respondents in Smyrna to dispatch a competent person to the site to complete the 
task, which has accordingly been done, and given me possession of more than one 
titulus relative to the rights of asylumship in ancient Teos. 
The discovery of this was, however, a work of some time and patience, much 
injury having been done to the marble, and the messenger (a Smyrniote Greek) 
who was sent having copied all that he could decipher in a continuous series, under 
the impression that it formed a single inscription. I transcribed and retranscribed 
the whole, assuming this to be the case, but without the slightest approximation 
to success in eliciting a satisfactory construction, until at last the thought luckily 
occurred to me to try whether the spaces at the right side of the fragment which I 
had copied, and the Greek transcriber had marked as Jacune, were not in reality 
intervals left by the engraver between two successive tituli; in other words, 
whether, instead of there being but one, there were not two or more. The trials 
I made to ascertain the truth of this ended in my complete success, and produced 
me three inscriptions, two of which are fragments hitherto unedited, and one 
complete, which the learned Chishull has long since published, but by no means 
in so perfect or correct a form as that in which I now possess it. The fragments 
I have been enabled to restore, in a great measure, to their original integrity, 
* Inser. Antiq. ii. p. 21, n. 8; Bockh, vol. ii. p- 648, n, 3064. 
+ Inser. P. 1, p- 10, n. 29. t V. ii. p. 683, n. 3103. 
